Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been infested by gypsy-moth caterpillars in record numbers. Last year the bugs chomped so voraciously through more than 5 million acres of woodland that the usually lush summer landscape looked as leafless as in late fall. This year's damage, patchily extending from northern Maine to Maryland and beyond, is far worse: an estimated 11 million acres of forest, an area larger than all of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island...
...Maryland Penitentiary
...decision will have immediate impact in Maryland and Oregon, where double celling has been barred by federal courts. Less clear is the probable effect in 25 other states, where prisons are under court orders to improve conditions, and in an additional ten states, where similar cases are pending. The court stressed that state legislators and administrators were better suited than judges to decide how to run their penitentiaries. But, said Justices William Brennan, Harry Blackmun and John Paul Stevens in a concurring opinion, "today's decision should in no way be construed as a retreat from careful judicial scrutiny...
...expressed envy and admiration for Israel's military boldness and execution. "We could have used them at Desert One," said a Republican Senator in an unkind reference to the abortive attempt to rescue the American hostages from Tehran. Quipped another Senator: "At least we know our planes work." Maryland Senator Charles Mathias may have expressed a dominant congressional view when he said, "I have no illusions that the Saudis or Sadat or anyone else is weeping crocodile tears over Iraq, but the implications are serious...
...banks will do I.B.F. business mainly with corporate or government clients; the minimum deposit or withdrawal will be $100,000. U.S. banks are expected to set up l.B.F.s soon in New York, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia and Maryland, where state legislatures have already passed laws exempting such financial operations from local and state income taxes...